Can a Sticker Change Perceptions About Disability?
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A stick figure seated in a partial circle that suggests a wheelchair: this symbol of disability, the International Symbol of Access, was created in 1968 by a Danish graphic design student. Rehab International, a global advocacy organization for individuals with disabilities, commissioned it to standardize a way to denote that facilities were accessible to individuals with disabilities, at a time when countries used different icons. The wheelchair symbol soon became widely accepted and won the support of the United Nations; it was also written into the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
What is also known as the International Wheelchair Icon has indeed become a global symbol of access. But many have felt that it is in need of an upgrade and proposed alternatives (pdf). Like the word “handicapped,” it has become outmoded over time.
[b]Artists Redesign a Familiar Symbol[/b]
In the wheelchair icon, the figure is stiff and static; the partial circle representing the wheel of the chair dominates. As artist Sara Hendren said in the 2011 Boston Globe, “The body is synonymous with the chair.” Since the term “disability” applies to a very wide range of conditions and diagnoses — some of which, such as autism, are not readily visible — the wheelchair icon can be said to not really apply to everyone who has a disability. The wheelchair symbol, it can be said, emphasizes what a person cannot do.
In 1994, Brendan Murphy, who had come from Ireland to study art in Cincinnati, offered a redesign of the icon. As the Boston Globe says, Murphy was in part inspired by a friend of his father’s, Christy Brown, who has cerebral palsy and was the subject of the movie “My Left Foot.” Brown created a design in which the figure was active, leaning forward with an arm behind the body so she or he seemed to be pushing off the wheel. The city of San Antonio, Massachusetts’ Williams College and companies including REI and Wal-Mart have adopted Murphy’s design and New York City’s Museum of Modern Art uses a variation of it.
More recently, Hendren, who lives in Cambridge and has three children, one of whom has Down Syndrome, has also redesigned the wheelchair icon; you can see her rendition here via Accessible Icon. Like Murphy’s, Hendren’s redesign transforms the original wheelchair icon. It suggests that the person, and the chair itself, are in motion. The figure’s head is set forward, so the person is a “‘driver’ or decision maker about her mobility”; she is not passive and static, but in charge of where she is going.
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A stick figure seated in a partial circle that suggests a wheelchair: this symbol of disability, the International Symbol of Access, was created in 1968 by a Danish graphic design student. Rehab International, a global advocacy organization for individuals with disabilities, commissioned it to standardize a way to denote that facilities were accessible to individuals with disabilities, at a time when countries used different icons. The wheelchair symbol soon became widely accepted and won the support of the United Nations; it was also written into the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
What is also known as the International Wheelchair Icon has indeed become a global symbol of access. But many have felt that it is in need of an upgrade and proposed alternatives (pdf). Like the word “handicapped,” it has become outmoded over time.
[b]Artists Redesign a Familiar Symbol[/b]
In the wheelchair icon, the figure is stiff and static; the partial circle representing the wheel of the chair dominates. As artist Sara Hendren said in the 2011 Boston Globe, “The body is synonymous with the chair.” Since the term “disability” applies to a very wide range of conditions and diagnoses — some of which, such as autism, are not readily visible — the wheelchair icon can be said to not really apply to everyone who has a disability. The wheelchair symbol, it can be said, emphasizes what a person cannot do.
In 1994, Brendan Murphy, who had come from Ireland to study art in Cincinnati, offered a redesign of the icon. As the Boston Globe says, Murphy was in part inspired by a friend of his father’s, Christy Brown, who has cerebral palsy and was the subject of the movie “My Left Foot.” Brown created a design in which the figure was active, leaning forward with an arm behind the body so she or he seemed to be pushing off the wheel. The city of San Antonio, Massachusetts’ Williams College and companies including REI and Wal-Mart have adopted Murphy’s design and New York City’s Museum of Modern Art uses a variation of it.
More recently, Hendren, who lives in Cambridge and has three children, one of whom has Down Syndrome, has also redesigned the wheelchair icon; you can see her rendition here via Accessible Icon. Like Murphy’s, Hendren’s redesign transforms the original wheelchair icon. It suggests that the person, and the chair itself, are in motion. The figure’s head is set forward, so the person is a “‘driver’ or decision maker about her mobility”; she is not passive and static, but in charge of where she is going.
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In the wheelchair icon, the figure is stiff and static; the partial circle representing the wheel of the chair dominates. As artist Sara Hendren said in the 2011 Boston Globe, “The body is synonymous with the chair.” Since the term “disability” applies to a very wide range of conditions and diagnoses — some of which, such as autism, are not readily visible — the wheelchair icon can be said to not really apply to everyone who has a disability. The wheelchair symbol, it can be said, emphasizes what a person cannot do.
In 1994, Brendan Murphy, who had come from Ireland to study art in Cincinnati, offered a redesign of the icon. As the Boston Globe says, Murphy was in part inspired by a friend of his father’s, Christy Brown, who has cerebral palsy and was the subject of the movie “My Left Foot.” Brown created a design in which the figure was active, leaning forward with an arm behind the body so she or he seemed to be pushing off the wheel. The city of San Antonio, Massachusetts’ Williams College and companies including REI and Wal-Mart have adopted Murphy’s design and New York City’s Museum of Modern Art uses a variation of it.
More recently, Hendren, who lives in Cambridge and has three children, one of whom has Down Syndrome, has also redesigned the wheelchair icon; you can see her rendition here via Accessible Icon. Like Murphy’s, Hendren’s redesign transforms the original wheelchair icon. It suggests that the person, and the chair itself, are in motion. The figure’s head is set forward, so the person is a “‘driver’ or decision maker about her mobility”; she is not passive and static, but in charge of where she is going.
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Can a Sticker Change Perceptions About Disability?[b]get causes updates[/b] A stick figure seated in a partial circle that suggests a wheelchair: this symbol of disability, the International Symbol of Access, was created in 1968 by a Danish graphic design student. Rehab International, a global advocacy organization for individuals with disabilities, commissioned it to standardize a way to denote that facilities were accessible to individuals with disabilities, at a time when countries used different icons. The wheelchair symbol soon became widely accepted and won the support of the United Nations; it was also written into the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What is also known as the International Wheelchair Icon has indeed become a global symbol of access. But many have felt that it is in need of an upgrade and proposed alternatives (pdf). Like the word “handicapped,” it has become outmoded over time. [b]Artists Redesign a Familiar Symbol[/b] In the wheelchair icon, the figure is stiff and static; the partial circle representing the wheel of the chair dominates. As artist Sara Hendren said in the 2011 Boston Globe, “The body is synonymous with the chair.” Since the term “disability” applies to a very wide range of conditions and diagnoses — some of which, such as autism, are not readily visible — the wheelchair icon can be said to not really apply to everyone who has a disability. The wheelchair symbol, it can be said, emphasizes what a person cannot do. In 1994, Brendan Murphy, who had come from Ireland to study art in Cincinnati, offered a redesign of the icon. As the Boston Globe says, Murphy was in part inspired by a friend of his father’s, Christy Brown, who has cerebral palsy and was the subject of the movie “My Left Foot.” Brown created a design in which the figure was active, leaning forward with an arm behind the body so she or he seemed to be pushing off the wheel. The city of San Antonio, Massachusetts’ Williams College and companies including REI and Wal-Mart have adopted Murphy’s design and New York City’s Museum of Modern Art uses a variation of it. More recently, Hendren, who lives in Cambridge and has three children, one of whom has Down Syndrome, has also redesigned the wheelchair icon; you can see her rendition here via Accessible Icon. Like Murphy’s, Hendren’s redesign transforms the original wheelchair icon. It suggests that the person, and the chair itself, are in motion. The figure’s head is set forward, so the person is a “‘driver’ or decision maker about her mobility”; she is not passive and static, but in charge of where she is going. โลโก้คนพิการนั่งรถเข็น